[ThunderSleeps]

Isn't that fairly obvious? I mean, isn't that exactly one of the primary purposes for NATO - an attack on one is an attack on all? It was started as a counter to the expanding Soviet Union and their puppet states.

All slow-Joe really did was re-state one of the founding principles laid down in April of 1949. I'm sure Joe remembers it like it was yesterday. Actually, if you brought it up, he'd probably claim he was there and helped with it.

[cgbg]

Nuclear war is like fight club—you just don’t talk about it—and move heaven and Earth behind the scenes to avoid it.